Aldous Eveleigh - Berlin - Altered postcards - 1989

Rare artist’s book (artist’s book), numbered edition, 1989
Rare and early artist’s book by the British artist Aldous Eveleigh (born 1951), published in 1989 — the year the Berlin Wall fell, a turning point in the history of the city that is central to this work.
This book was compiled by the artist himself when he was working in Berlin in the late 1980s, and contains a series of originally altered city postcards. Eveleigh overpainted existing tourist Berlin postcards, a technique he described as “dubbed photographs”: a dialogue between photographic reality and painterly intervention.

Title: Altered postcards
Artist: Aldous Eveleigh (British artist, born 1951)
Year: 1989
Publisher: Berlin / London, The artist
Type: artist’s book
Edition: 150 numbered copies
Contents:

Handwritten title page (black pen & ink)
22 color plates: real city postcards of Berlin, overpainted / altered by Eveleigh
Original linen binding with mounted image on the front cover.